I understand there's an increased error rate, that's how I concluded there is an attempted DOS. But it appears not to be working completely, and so a post claiming X is "down" does appear to be pre-coordinated to reflect the _intended_ rather than _actual_ effect.
Let's say this is a DOS causing the outage - if the DOS is bad enough that the service is out for enough users then that is effectively an outage, regardless of the cause.
Saying this post is part of a coordinated campaign to damage the X brand is just ridiculous though - it's clear that X IS down for a large number of users.
I believe there has never been a better time to do a micro SaaS. For 200$ a month you can use Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Adonisjs, or some other boring full stack framework, to vibe code most things you need. Only a few things need to be truly original in any given SaaS product, while most of it is just the same old stuff that is amendable to vibe coding.
This means the smaller niches become viable. You can be a smaller team targeting a smaller niche and still be able to pull of a full SaaS product profitably. Before it would just be too costly.
And as you say, the smaller niches just aren't interesting to the big companies.
When some new tech comes along that unlocks big new possibilities - like PCs, the Internet, Smartphones (and now Agentic Chat AI) - the often recited wisdom is that you should look at what open green fields are now accessible that weren't before, and you should run there as fast as possible to stake your claim. Well there are now a lot of small pastures available that it are also profitable to go for as a small team/individual.
The lack of "real, comment sense human support" from giant tech corporations is terrifying - and something that only regulation can fix. These tech companies have increasingly taken over our lives - getting locked out of a 20-year-old Google or Apple account could legitimately ruin your life - or at the very least - make it incredibly difficult for 6-12 months as you work to recover every account linked to it and migrate to something else.
One problem is that even if you can reach a real human - they have to follow a script and have strict limits on the problem solving they can do. If something falls outside of the normal support algorithm they are stuck.
What do you do if you're an average Joe without a popular tech blog and connections to the Apple community? How many people has this happened to that have just given up entirely?
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